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Alma Park
Anwick
Bardney
Barkston
Heath
Belton Park
Binbrook
Blankney Hall
Blyton
Boston Wyberton Fen
Bottesford
Bracebridge Heath
Braceby
Buckminster
Bucknall
Caistor
Cockthorne
Coleby Grange
Coningsby
Cranwell
Cuxwold
Digby
Donna Nook
Dunholme Lodge
East Halton
East Kirkby
Elsham Wolds
Faldingworth
Fiskerton
Folkingham
Freiston
Fulbeck
Gosberton
Goxhill
Grantham
Greenland Top
Grimsby
Grimsthorpe Park
Harlaxton
Hemswell
Hibaldstow
Holbeach
Humberston
Immingham
Ingham
Ingoldmels
Kelstern
Killingholme
Kirmington
Kirton in Lindsey
Langtoft
Leadenham
Lincoln West Common
Ludford Magna
Manby
Market Deeping
Market Stainton
Mere
Metheringham
Moorby
Morton Hall
New Holland
Nocton Hall
Normanby
North Coates
North Killingholme
North Witham
Norton Disney
Orby
Rauceby
Saltby
Sandtoft
Scampton
Skegness
Skellingthorpe
Skendleby
South Carlton
South Elkington
South Witham
Spilsby
Spitalgate
Stenigot
Strubby
Sturgate
Sutton Bridge
Swinderby
Swinstead
Theddlethorpe
Tydd St Mary
Waddington
Wainfleet
Waltham (Grimsby)
Wellingore
Wickenby
Wigsley
Winterton
Woodhall Spa
Updated: 12 Nov 11
This is a distinct location to the RAF Grantham at St Vincents House which housed HQ 5 Gp. RAF Spitalgate was so named on 29 Mar 1944 and is sometimes referred to as RAF Spittlegate.
Opened: Nov 1916 as Grantham Aerodrome
Upgraded: Grass runway replaced Nov 1943 - early 1944
Closed: 1975; now a Royal Logistics Corps Territorial Army Centre Grantham
Airfield code :: GH
Squadrons based here:
24 Wing RFC :: 24 Mar 1917 - Apr 1918
11 TS (Reserve Training Squadron) :: Apr - 15 Sep 1917 (to RAF Scampton)
49 TS :: ?? - 15 Sep 1917
15 TS :: Sep 1917 - 15 Aug 1918*
20 TS :: Sep - 27 Nov 1917
37 TS :: Sep 1917 - 15 Aug 1918*
109 Training Squadron ??
* formed 39 Training
Depot Station :: 15 Aug 1918
renamed
39 Training School :: 14 Mar 1919 - 26 Apr 1920
renamed
6 Flying Training School :: 26 Apr 1920 - May 1921
70 Sqn :: Feb 1919 - disbanded by year-end 1919
29 Sqn :: Aug 1919 - disbanded by year-end 1919
43 Sqn :: Sep 1919 - Jan 1920
100 Sqn :: 4 Feb 1922 - ??, Aug 1926 - Jan 1928
39 Sqn :: 8 Feb 1923 - 21 Jan 1928
HQ 23 Gp :: 12 Apr 1926 - 14 Aug 1926
3 FTS :: 2 Apr 1928 - summer 1937
113 Sqn :: Aug 1937 - 30 Apr 1938
211 Sqn :: 2 Sep 1937 - Apr 1938
106 Sqn :: Sep - 14 Oct 1938
12
Service Flying Training School :: Oct 1938,
renamed
12 FTS :: Sep 1939,
renamed
12 (Pilots) AFU ::
1 Apr 1942 - 8 Feb 1945
HQ 5 Gp Comms Flt :: 1938 - 14 Nov 1943
1536 Beam Approach Trg Flt :: Mar 1943 - May 1945
17 SFTS :: Mar 1945,
renamed
1 FTS :: 1947 - Feb 1948
RAF OCTU :: Jun 1948 - Mar 1954
Mess Staff School :: Sep 1949 - Aug 1957
HQ 24 Gp TTC :: Mar 1954 - Sep 1958
RAF School of Education :: 1955 - 1958
RAF Central Library :: 1955 - 1958
WRAF Depot :: 1960 - Mar 1974
2166 Comms Sqn USAF :: 1962 - 1967
Central Gliding School :: - 1975
RAF Folkingham served as a daylight dummy and Q-site decoy or fake for RAF Spitalgate.
HQ 24 Group moved from Spitalgate in late August or very early September 1958. DAvid Lingard recollects travelling by bus (with RAF quality hard seats) from Spitalgate to RAF Rudloe Manor in Wiltshire, with a lunch break at RAF Bicester.
Action Stations Revisited - the complete history of Britain's military airfields, No 1 Eastern England (Michael J F Bowyer)
An in-depth analysis drawing on 60 years of personal research providing a complete survey and history of Eastern England's airfields. Lincolnshire locations covered include Grantham.
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